I finally feel ready enough to post this! I had to re-write this chapter a few times but I think this is now good enough to post.
So anyway, this fic is my newest idea. I'm still going to be writing on Chaos and Disorder and my other fics but I just haven't had the motivation to...
This fanfic happens after the events in Love Comes In Many Ways but is NOT a sequel (after all, that fic isn't even finished). That's why Shatami is familiar and close with Shadow and Dekato.
One more thing, this story will be very long and will span over a lot of time...looooooooooooots of time.
Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic or any other related characters, I do, however, own anyone that isn't an official character.
Note:
italics Thoughts or stressed words
bold Emphasized words, loud shouting, place names
regular Present time talking and the story
Wind rustled through the trees as many red leaves were blown from their perches and fluttered softly to the ground.
A small pink hedgehog stood in the middle of the small woods and stared in awe at the beautiful sight.
She wore a yellow long sleeved shirt with blue jeans. Yellow ribbons adorned the tips of her small ears and her apple green eyes sparkled with innocence.
"Winter's coming." Came a voice behind her.
She turned her head to look at the approaching blue hedgehog. The hedgehog was only two years older than she was but he had been at the orphanage longer than she. After all, she'd only just arrived there a few months ago.
"Hi Sonic! What're you doing out here?" she asked with her four-year-old curiosity and smile.
Sonic returned her smile as he came to stand next to her.
"Same reason you're out here, to watch the leaves. Pretty, aren't they?"
He picked up one that had fallen nearby and twirled it by its stem between his index finger and thumb.
She nodded happily and continued to watch as more fell onto the forest floor a few feet away.
"Amy?"
The young hedgehog turned her head to look at him. He was staring at the leaf in his hand, still mindlessly twirling it.
"Do you like it here?" he asked, still staring at the oh-so-interesting red star.
"What do you mean?"
"The orphanage," he stopped twirling the leaf and allowed the wind to blow it out of his open hand. "Do you like it so far at the orphanage? Do you think everyone's nice? Do you think I'm nice? Even if I accidentally ran you over when it was dinner time?..."
She could hear the tentativeness and worry in his voice and just smiled at him, making the six year old blush a little.
Amy turned back to the red leaves and smiled as the wind blew some on the ground into a mini tornado.
"Yes…everyone's nice here. Mr. and Mrs. DeBore are very nice people…"
"What about me?" he asked looking at her for the answer.
Her smile grew.
"You're the best one, Sonic. You're like a hero to all of us, especially me."
He blushed.
"I dunno about the hero part…" he whispered but she heard him.
"You can do anything, Sonic!"
Her ear suddenly twitched as she heard voices coming from the orphanage not too far away from the park.
"Dinner's ready." She smiled mischievously at the blue hedgehog, causing his ears to turn down slightly.
"W-what?"
"Wanna race?" her smile spread a bit.
Sonic's face brightened as his ears returned to their normal stance.
"You bet! Last one to the table has to clean dishes for a week!"
With that the two hedgehog friends raced off toward their only home.
"Miss? Miss Rose?"
A voice broke into Amy's thoughts.
"Huh?"
"Um, your total comes to $10.55…" the purple puma female said as the pink hedgehog took a moment to regain what was happening.
"Oh! I'm sorry! Here you go!" Amy handed the cashier her money and picked up her two bags of groceries.
"No problem, have a nice day, miss!"
"You too."
With that, Amy walked out the sliding doors and was again on the streets of Station Square. She breathed in and began to walk the distance to her apartment.
It's been a while since she saw everyone, she wondered how they were all doing. Her mind went back to the memory she had been recollecting and a smile was cast upon her face.
She hadn't been the one to do the dishes that night as someone else had gotten to the table last after they got there. Still, she couldn't help but miss those days. That was before Sonic became a real hero, not just to her but to everyone, before either of them had known Eggman.
She sighed as the memories of those days sank in. She suddenly ceased her walking and looked up to see where she was and fought tears from her eyes as she gazed upon the abandoned building. It had once been her home, it had been Sonic's home before she had even been there.
The building was gray from age and the wood X's covering the windows were showing signs of decay. She looked into a part of one of the dusty windows that was broken and saw the emptiness of the building. For a brief moment she thought she saw a scene of the other orphans playing Tacks while she and Sonic watched TV with the elderly couple, but when she blinked the image vanished to be replaced by the emptiness.
Sighing heavily again she continued to go on to her apartment, the weight of the bags starting to become a nuisance to her arms.
She walked for five more minutes. Finally, she could begin to see the door of her apartment building but was suddenly stopped by a woman's scream. She turned swiftly to see what was wrong but was stopped from doing anything by feeling the rush of the ground no longer under her feet and her grocery bags forgotten on the street.
She tried to see her captor but found herself unable to move, she wasn't even able to move her mouth to scream, all she was able to do was breath. She noted the feeling of rough, cold metallic arms around her body but noted nothing else as all went black.
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Somewhere in Westopolis, midday
"Lunch is served!" the magenta and purple hedgehog exclaimed happily from atop the rooftop of a building.
The black and red feline mewled her excitement next to her.
"I know you're hungry, Nightfire, that's why I got you this!" Shatami held out a fresh tuna to her cat friend. The cat meowed and happily grabbed the fish and began to eat.
"We should've invited Shadow to come along." She said as she got out her own food and began to eat. "But he said he had a Government-related mission to do so he wouldn't have been able to come anyway. Ah well, his loss of my cooking!"
Nightfire mewed her agreement as the female hedgehog laughed with amusement.
She continued to eat until Nightfire suddenly dropped her half-eaten fish and began to hiss and growl at something.
"Night? What's wrong? What do you—" She was cut off as she felt something hard and metallic hit her head and she blacked out, feeling the rush of wind against her face.
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Meanwhile at Shadow's apartment
Dekato sat down on the couch gazing adoringly at the slice of cheese he was eating and humming randomly to himself.
His ears perked at the sound of the door being opened as he swallowed what was in his mouth.
As the nearby door opened Shadow walked in, carelessly letting the door slam behind him.
The red and black hedgehog's ears drooped a little at the apparent annoyance on his brother's face.
"H-hey bro, how'd the mission go? Wasn't expecting you back this early."
Shadow just grunted and passed his twin without looking at him.
"I'll take that as a 'I don't want to talk about it' silent statement."
Shadow turned to glare at his idiotic non-identical twin, making the slightly younger hedgehog pin his ears down at the angry gaze.
"Um…by the way…"
"What?" the black and red hedgehog stressed his annoyance.
Dekato gulped, not knowing if he'd be beaten or would be heard out by the currently irate hedgehog. Shadow could be violent when he was really mad.
"Shatami came by not too long ago, she wanted to know if you could eat lunch with her."
"And you told her…?"
Dekato smirked, not resisting the joke that came to his mind.
"I told the beautiful lady that her dear hedgehog was not here and was instead picking some flowers. I then proceeded to woo the lonely—"
"Dekato…"
The younger hedgehog looked at his brother and drooped his ears lower at the killing gaze. Shadow began to walk toward him, the look to kill never leaving his eyes.
Dekato backed up slightly and put his hands up in defenselessness.
"C-calm down, bro! I jest! I would never try to woo the lady of my dear and only brother, despite her ever present beauty and lushness."
Shadow growled as he continued to walk toward Dekato in intimidation, making his eyes grow really wide and his irises to turn small.
"Dekato…" Shadow said calmly looking at the cowering hedgehog in front of him. "Shut up!" he brought the side of his closed fist on top of his brother's head then calmly walked again toward the kitchen.
Dekato rubbed the his head then smoothed out his hair.
"So what exactly happened that made you so mad?"
"He got away…" was the response from the kitchen.
Dekato raised a questioning eyebrow in the general direction of his serious brother then shrugged and continued to eat his abandoned slice of cheese in happiness.
Shadow came back with a simple sandwich and sat in his chair across from the sofa.
Dekato began to stare at his cheese, his crimson eyes glazed over slightly as if in a daze. Drool began to collect slightly at his mouth and Shadow rolled his own ruby eyes in annoyance.
"Pervert…fantasizing about that girl again?"
Dekato's gaze snapped back to normal and he stared at the older hedgehog.
"Why whatever do you mean, Shaddy?"
"You know what I mean you—" he was stopped by the sound of high pitched mewls and shrieks outside the balcony doors.
Both of them turned to see a black and red cat pawing fiercely at the glass making panicked and desperate meowing sounds.
"What the…?" Dekato stated his curiosity.
"That's Nightfire…what could she be doing here?" Shadow asked aloud as he got up to let the cat in.
Upon opening the glass door the black and red cat streaked in and began meowing frantically as if trying to speak.
"I think she's trying to say something…"
Shadow glared at his twin who just shrugged.
"Something's wrong…Shatami is usually with her, what could be making her so frantic…"
The cat turned her big red eyes to him and he looked in them, reading the message the cat couldn't speak aloud.
"I see…"
"See what?" Dekato questioned from where he sat, staring at the two silently communicate.
Shadow picked up the small cat and turned to Dekato.
"Stay here and look after things, I have to go find someone." With that he grabbed his Chaos Emerald and chaos controlled out of the room to who-knows-where.
Dekato scratched his head in confusion then shrugged as he picked up one of his favorite magazines and opened to the first page.
"Ah, my beauties, did you miss my gaze upon your luscious bodies?"
And with that, ends Chapter 1! Whatever happened to Amy and Shatami? Does the "He got away..." have any significance? All shall be answered in the next chapter!
Hehe, anyone with a perverted mind can probably guess the magazine Dekato is looking at. Or at least, the furry version of said magazine.
And by the way, Shadow wasn't being abusive to his twin, if that's what anyone thought. Dekato tends to be really stupid and perverted when he means to be good so he gets rewarded by getting slapped and bonked on the head by Shadow. Also, even though they are "twins" so to say, Shadow was created before Dekato was so he is, in a sense, the oldest one although they are twins.
I hope ya'll enjoyed this! I plan to work on the second chapter right now!
Kalana Fox